November 6, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



665 



Botany: J. M. Coulter, XJniversity of Chicago, 



Chicago, in. 

 Zoology: E. Gr. Harrison, Yale University, New 



Haven, Conn. 

 Genetics: G. B. Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, 



N. Y. 

 Physiology: W. B. Cannon, Harvard University, 



Cambridge, Mass. 

 Pathology: Simon Flexner, EockefeUer Institute, 



New York City. 

 Anthropology : W. H. Holmes, National Museum, 



Washington, D. C. 

 Psychology: J. MoKeen Cattell, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York City. 

 Ex-officiis: 



Some Secretary, A. L. Day, Geophysical Lab- 

 oratory, Washington, D. C. 



Foreign Secretary, G. E. Hale, Solar Observa- 

 tory, Pasadena, Cal. 

 Managing Editor: E. B. Wilson, Mass. Inst. Tech., 



Boston, Mass. 

 Chairman of the Board: A. A. Noyes, Mass. Inst. 



Tech., Boston, Mass. 



The main purpose of the proceedings is to 

 obtain the prompt publication and wide cir- 

 culation of a comprehensive survey, in the 

 form of brief original articles, of the more 

 important scientific researches currently made 

 by American investigators. The articles are 

 to be much shorter and less detailed than those 

 commonly published in special journals, and 

 may subsequently be published in more exten- 

 sive form in such journals. It is expected 

 that the articles will as a rule vary from one 

 to five printed pages in length, with a maxi- 

 mum limit of eight to ten pages in exceptional 

 cases where the results of extended investi- 

 gations are summarized, or the significance of 

 a series of detailed publications is formulated. 

 The articles are, however, to be precise, and to 

 contain some record of the experimental, ob- 

 servational, or theoretical methods and results 

 upon which the conclusions are based; but 

 these statements are to be condensed, long 

 tables of data and the details of the work 

 being reserved for publication in special 

 journals. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Bisset Hawkins memorial medal, 

 awarded triennially by the Eoyal College of 



Physicians of London, in recognition of work 

 in advancing sanitary science or promoting 

 public health during the preceding ten years, 

 was, on October 19, presented to Sir Eonald 

 Eoss, in recognition of his researches on ma- 

 laria. 



The Technical Institute at Zurich has con- 

 ferred its honorary doctorate on Professor 

 Hermann Schwartz, professor of mathematics 

 at Berlin, on the occasion of the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of his doctorate. 



Dr. Joseph P. Iddings is engaged in geolog- 

 ical research in the far east, having been in 

 Java in August. He does not expect to re- 

 turn to Washington for a year or more. 



Dr. J. William White, emeritus professor 

 of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, head of the de- 

 partment of physical education, have volun- 

 teered their professional services to the British 

 government. 



Mr. Millard K. Shaler, who is represent- 

 ing the United States in affording relief to 

 suffering Belgians, was, until 1909, a member 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey, since which 

 time he has been engaged in explorations in 

 the African Congo region. 



Several German scientific men, including 

 the botanist Dr. Kukenthal, who were engaged 

 in a scientific expedition to Corsica, are said 

 to be held prisoners of war on the island. 



Dr. E. Trumpler, astronomer for the Geo- 

 detic Commission of Switzerland, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant at the Allegheny Observa- 

 tory, but has thus far been detained, being 

 an officer in the Swiss army. 



Dr. George H. Shull has returned to the 

 Station of Experimental Evolution, Cold 

 Spring Harbor, IST. T., after spending thirteen 

 months in Berlin. He carried on some ex- 

 periments in Dr. Erwin Baur's botanical gar- 

 den in Friedrichshagen, and at the outbreak 

 of the war was able to assist in the other ex- 

 perimental work. Previously he took part in 

 the meeting of the German Botanical Society, 

 and by invitation gave an address on hetero- 

 zygosis in its bearing on practical breeding 

 before the Society for the Advancement of 



